Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 183. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.13 g, 10h). Uranopolis mint(?). Struck under Kassander, Philip IV, Antipater, or Demetrios I Poliorketes, circa 300-290 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, star on cone above Θ; A below throne. Price 518; SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank 552; SNG Saroglos -. Near EF, a couple tiny spots of encrustation. Rare issue at Uranopolis.